“A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.” — Daniel James Brown Boating Copy Share Image
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.” — Daniel James Brown Poetry Copy Share Image
“It is a small but noteworthy irony that among the first Allied troops who crossed the Elbe River and met up with… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“was a shared experience—a singular thing that had unfolded in a golden sliver of time long gone, when nine good-hearted young men… — Daniel James Brown Love Copy Share Image
“The wood, Pocock murmured, taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about… — Daniel James Brown First place Copy Share Image
“Rowing is perhaps the toughest of sports. Once the race starts, there are no time-outs, no substitutions. It calls upon the limits… — Daniel James Brown Endurance Copy Share Image
“The revelation that one could find free food just sitting on a stump in the woods landed on Joe like a thunderbolt.… — Daniel James Brown Free food Copy Share Image
“But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. On May 9 a colossal dust storm had… — Daniel James Brown Central park Copy Share Image
“The trick would be to find which few of them had the potential for raw power, the nearly superhuman stamina, the indomitable… — Daniel James Brown Willpower Copy Share Image
“Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History.” — Daniel James Brown Books Copy Share Image
“Ebright yawned that his varsity was nothing to write home about—“a good average outfit,” — Daniel James Brown Yawned Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts must be directed to you and your own boat, always positive, never negative.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“the national champion California boys were an intimidating sight. Seattle reporters marveled at how sun-bronzed they looked when seen side by side… — Daniel James Brown Side by side Copy Share Image
“Seattle sports had once risen briefly to international prominence, in 1917, when the city’s professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, became the first… — Daniel James Brown Hockey team Copy Share Image
“Her father was cold and distant, more likely to cuddle the family dog than one of his own children. He believed that… — Daniel James Brown Family Copy Share Image
“The ability to yield, to bend, to give way, to accommodate, he said, was sometimes a source of strength in men as… — Daniel James Brown Greatness Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down,” he told his daughter, Marilynn. “What matters is how many times you… — Daniel James Brown Children Copy Share Image
“Just as a skilled rider is said to become part of his horse, the skilled oarsman must become part of his boat.… — Daniel James Brown Horse Copy Share Image
“Now it came as a searing revelation that his father had not felt safe enough to live by that same simple proposition,… — Daniel James Brown Beloved son Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the… — Daniel James Brown Fundamentals Copy Share Image
Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Balance Copy Share Image
“for him the craft of building a boat was like religion. It wasn’t enough to master the technical details of it. You… — Daniel James Brown Boat Copy Share Image
“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the… — Daniel James Brown Rowing Copy Share Image
“They are almost all gone now - the legions of young men who saved the world in the years just before I… — Daniel James Brown Gratitude Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the… — Daniel James Brown Overcoming Copy Share Image
What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the… — Daniel James Brown Boat Copy Share Image
“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than… — Daniel James Brown Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Balance Copy Share Image
“A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman competing at the highest levels must be able to take in and consume as much as eight… — Daniel James Brown Rowing Copy Share Image
“the Illinois Gazette, published some handy “Rules for Wives,” among them these: A good wife will always receive her husband with smiles,… — Daniel James Brown Good husband Copy Share Image
“Standing there, watching them, it occurred to me that when Hitler watched Joe and the boys fight their way back from the… — Daniel James Brown Five years Copy Share Image
“That fall Harry Rantz abruptly returned from Canada, bought a lot in Spokane, and began to construct a new house, trying to… — Daniel James Brown Life Copy Share Image
“It was when he tried to talk about 'the boat' that his words began to falter and tears welled up in his… — Daniel James Brown Together forever Copy Share Image
“And capitalizing on diversity is perhaps even more important when it comes to the characters of the oarsmen. A crew composed entirely… — Daniel James Brown Common core Copy Share Image
“You will eat no fried meats,” he began abruptly. “You will eat no pastries, but you will eat plenty of vegetables. You… — Daniel James Brown Six months Copy Share Image
“I lingered a bit longer. The tug of kinship held me there, bound me to the place and to a man I… — Daniel James Brown Darkness Copy Share Image
“after reading an article about Ulbrickson’s nutritional regimen, and contemplating his boys’ success, a horse trainer named Tom Smith would go in… — Daniel James Brown Happiness Copy Share Image
